0a960ba498
The following commits loosened the permissions of /proc/<PID>/fdinfo/
directory, as well as the files within it, from 0500 to 0555 while also
introducing a PTRACE_MODE_READ check between the current task and
<PID>'s task:
- commit 7bc3fa0172a4 ("procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ")
- commit 1927e498aee1 ("procfs: prevent unprivileged processes accessing fdinfo dir")
Before those changes, inode based system calls like inotify_add_watch(2)
would fail when the current task didn't have sufficient read permissions:
[...]
lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0500, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo",
IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|
IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[...]
This matches the documented behavior in the inotify_add_watch(2) man
page:
ERRORS
EACCES Read access to the given file is not permitted.
After those changes, inotify_add_watch(2) started succeeding despite the
current task not having PTRACE_MODE_READ privileges on the target task:
[...]
lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo",
IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|
IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = 1757
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[...]
This change in behavior broke .NET prior to v7. See the github link
below for the v7 commit that inadvertently/quietly (?) fixed .NET after
the kernel changes mentioned above.
Return to the old behavior by moving the PTRACE_MODE_READ check out of
the file .open operation and into the inode .permission operation:
[...]
lstat("/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
inotify_add_watch(64, "/proc/1/task/1/fdinfo",
IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|
IN_ONLYDIR|IN_DONT_FOLLOW|IN_EXCL_UNLINK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[...]
Reported-by: Kevin Parsons (Microsoft) <parsonskev@gmail.com>
Link: 89e5469ac5
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75379065/start-self-contained-net6-build-exe-as-service-on-raspbian-system-unauthorizeda
Fixes: 7bc3fa0172a4 ("procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Hardik Garg <hargar@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) <code@tyhicks.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240501005646.745089-1-code@tyhicks.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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